Drip staking 4 weeks flower(stress)

About 4 weeks in and last week I staked some ladies and they are not well developed for four weeks at all. It is a shitty phenotype of Diablo OG so I'm hoping that's the cause, well I'm gonna trash them but I have a few more plants also four weeks in that I need to stake and I was wondering if anyone has done this and noticed signs of stress.
Thanks

If you mean jabbing a stake into the dirt next to the plant then I can imagine you damaging roots. Plan ahead and put stakes in at the start. With no stake I would say use some string and loosely tie her up somehow.

I've actually ripped off roots from very young plants(transplant) and they do recover quickly. Once their roots hit water they go crazy with growth. So you have a problem.